NewsNation host Chris Cuomo on Thursday criticized a viewer of a Nov. 7 episode who disagreed with his claim that President-elect Donald Trump “has to unify.”
The viewer commented on the Nov. 7 episode of “The Chris Cuomo Project” on YouTube, arguing that unity is not necessary for Trump and that it would not “be a priority” for the president-elect, who is “very comfortable” with “division.” Cuomo, on his Thursday episode, responded by asserting that the viewer was ignorant and explaining why he thinks Trump will pursue unity.
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“That’s because you don’t understand leadership and governance versus antagonism and campaigning. The reason the expression ‘You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose’ has — you’re like, ‘What, who said that?’ … You’re not a student of the game, okay? You’re about how you feel and negativity as a proxy for insight,” Cuomo said. “That’s you, okay? ‘You don’t know me.’ I don’t want to know you. I’m telling you how you present, as a doctor would say. This is how you present. ‘That’s not who I am.’ I don’t give a shit who you are; that’s how you present, and that’s how you came to me, okay?”
“And the reason that Donald Trump doesn’t stay with what got him here is because it won’t get him where he wants to be — which is what? Greatness. Donald Trump understands that he is not considered great in the pages of history; he is not. He is an asterisk, he is scandal, he is diminishment of norms,” he continued. “That’s what he is, and that is not what he wants to be. How do I know I’m right and not you? Well, one, I know him and you don’t.”
The NewsNation host also claimed Trump had a “major initiative” at one point during his first term called “DJT [Donald John Trump] 100” to achieve “100%” popularity,” but that it was abandoned.
“He is best served by no longer being the spirit animal of the outraged in the right fringe, but somebody who wants to expand and grow,” Cuomo added. “Because if he does that, he doesn’t need them anymore. He’s not going to get elected anyway — he’s got enough fans. You’ll see.”
Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris in the popular vote by 2%, with nearly 76 million votes as of Thursday morning, according to The Associated Press.
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“It’s time to put the divisions of the past four years behind us. It’s time to unite, and we’re going to try. We’re going to try, we have to try, and it’s going to happen,” Trump said in his Nov. 6 victory speech. “Success will bring us together. I’ve seen that. I’ve seen that. I saw that in the first term when we became more and more successful. People started coming together. Success is going to bring us together.
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First published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.